"In the mid '80s the total destructive power of the U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons was equivalent to 40 billion tons of TNT, enough to have destroyed the world many times over. " - C. RAMMANOHAR REDDY
$5,500,000,000,000 - The Total Amount spent on the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program from 1940-1996. 2 - The total number of Nuclear Weapons used during that same period. 200,000 - The estimated number of people killed as a result of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 800,000 - The estimated number of people who will eventually die in the U.S. as a result of exposure to nuclear tests in the United States. $27,000,000,000 - The amount spent by the U.S. government each year planning for a nuclear war.
| Instructions: The Cold War came to an end with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, however the spread of nuclear weapons remains an issue in the world to this day. Despite the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons there are today 8 nations generally believed to own nuclear weapons and several others on the threshold of developing nuclear weapons of their own. Your group will be given an envelope containing the name of nuclear power a string and a handful of other materials Locate your nation on the map at the back of the room. Then using the information about your countries nuclear arsenal contained on the page linked below and the materials provided in your envelope assess the destructive power of that nations nuclear power. The United States Russia China Great Britain France Israel India Pakistan South Africa Iran (scroll down) |